My high school biology paper in my sophomore year was on the topic of test tube babies and at that time my only reference was this Life magazine article. Now some fifty years later the genetic race has come to this. Who knows what will happen if this genie is let out of the bottle? Shouldn’t we be a little wiser after the covid debacle?
I saw this day coming and my personal ethics could not let me play God or even attempt it. My degree was tailored for bioinformatics but I stunk at statistics so now I research medicine and nutrition. It’s saved my life on more than one occasion. Did you know that iatrogenesis is the third leading cause of death?? Probably higher now that the covid truths are coming out.
We’re not playing God, we’re helping God, sometimes he’s too busy. — a DNA scientist from the movie (below)
God too busy? This is the moral level of the scientists doing this DNA work. This is a medical/ethical/legal and moral dilemma that is on our horizon. The time to talk about this is now.
DNA Engineering
The Genetic Revolution: The Manipulation of Human DNA | Documentary
Crisper
The beagle in the video, named Hercules, is bigger than the other beagles and his heavy breathing is suspect that his heart is enlarged as well, after all it is a muscle too. The trade offs in genetic engineering is a slippery slope. Where are the ethical lines being drawn? What laws do we have in place for this?
Three parents combined at the egg and sperm stage to form a “designer baby”? The idea is to avoid genetic predispositions of cancer but what would stop them from ordering blue eyes or dimples? But what if cancer isn’t really genetic? What if it’s been introduced somewhere at some point in our life, as in a vaccine, water supply, or insect bite designed in a bioweapon lab? What if it is caused by 5G? What if….? Clean up the toxic environment instead of altering genes.
This genetic engineering may sound good in some ways but I see scientists going overboard and letting their egos play God. I’ve seen too much to trust these “mad scientists” going rogue.
It’s all natural….it’s DNA.
A science fiction nightmare?
Human organs are being grown in pigs using your own stem cells, genetically inserted into a pig embryo. Sounds like a good idea, right? But wait, what if they start cloning really bizarre things that you don’t agree with? What are the limitations? Are there any limitations in our legal system in place? What are we willing to accept and what will we not? Future farms growing pigs that are growing human hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys to be transplanted into humans. Should we be doing that? Old MacDonald is probably rolling over in his grave.
DIY Genetics - What could possibly go wrong?
One company sells Crisper gene kits for the DIY genetics movement consisting of mostly younger people that call themselves “biohackers”. Most customers they sell these kits to have no science background at all. Mixing bacteria with jellyfish. Shouldn’t this be regulated? How will they dispose of their mistakes? Will they flush them down the toilet and into the public water system? Why are we turning a blind eye to this potential bio-hazard waiting to happen?
What are the legalities with three parent babies? You can change the DNA in the lab but not in a person in the USA. Now this service is being offered in the Ukraine and is being stream lined for future parents. Is this what all our tax dollars given to the Ukraine were for…designer babies or babies grown for body parts? Oh no, they are using pigs instead or are they?
They don’t care about better health, we’ve seen that in these last few years. It is all about the $$$
We don’t know what we don’t know. Are we crossing a line?
Now Facebook Live sessions host biohackers doing DIY gene editing at home. What? This isn’t a toy or a game, this is NOT child’s play. This is a technology that could cause great harm to an unsuspecting public. Crisper is a “tidal wave” of technology that is going to affect everything in biology. But wait….
A self editing gene drive that is self replicating and would continue throughout the future generations until the new gene takes over the population. Holy Cow! You better have an “off” switch. Now they are talking about gene editing wildlife. This is a Pandora’s box that should NOT be opened. Could we be dealing with a Hegelian Dialectic? I hope people are waking up to what is going on.
Those who initiate and oversee the process have an objective, and they know that it will be resisted, so they resort to deception, especially at the beginning, to break down resistance to the goal.
They are providing an “answer” for a “problem” they (the government) created in the first place. Why wouldn’t they be the solution to convince a gullible public that this is good for them. I’m not saying that people that have been suffering shouldn’t have a “cure” or a reduction of pain/symptoms, but why do we have illness in the first place?
Do me a favor. Look up the years that technological advances were made in electronics and compare those years to outbreaks of deadly influenza and other plagues that wiped out populations. Is there a common theme here? Every outbreak of illness coincided with the telegraph, when electricity was first installed, the radio, sonar, cell phones, 5G….did I hear Wuhan, China? Oh yeah, that was the first installation of 5G and it just so happens that was where the first covid outbreak occurred…hmmm…coincidence?
Heart Disease Running Rampant
As for me, I don’t want a heart transplant. Human to human transplants require so many anti-rejection drugs to make the transplant “work”. The life after surgery is not a quality of life. My cousin had the first heart transplant done in his state of NC and I didn’t want that. I don’t want a longer life living in hell, dependent upon medicine to keep me alive. The medicines would probably kill me with a cardiac event due to LQTS. (Read my last post on SADS). The rejections of these cross species transplants are very concerning. But of course China is the hub of this type of science and in the United States, Emory University in Atlanta, GA. But how many drugs would you have to take to keep your body from rejecting a pig heart?
When Do We Learn to Say NO MORE?
Monkey brains with autism? How and why would you purposefully foist a life with difficulties on an innocent animal? The inhumane treatment of animals as they experiment on gene editing is sickening. Do they care? They have lost their moral compass when they chose this as a profession.
With humans, it’s not always just about having a child or not but rather ordering the “designer baby”. Why not stop abortion and promote adoption instead? Oh…that wouldn’t fit their agenda of destroying the traditional family. I know, it’s not about babies, growing organs for transplants or any other beneficial reason they give to move their agenda forward…but what if this is for creating transhumanoids? Are you ready to be replaced?
Where is the moral conscience? Genetic engineering is always purported to be something for the future but it’s happening now. Some countries have laws, but most don’t. Canada has laws that allows for gene editing to save the life of a person but not to use it to create an individual. Not having appropriate laws on the books just opens up a whole other can of worms. Kind of like putting the cart before the horse.
It’s time to have talk about it before it’s to late. Genetic engineering doesn’t have a “do over”… you can’t go back to the way it was.
This is the first time doing a poll on Substack, so don’t shoot me if there’s a glitch. I’m interested in knowing what you think about the subject. Are you for or against gene editing with Crispr gene techniques?
Before I close, let me share a thought I had. Is it coincidence that newborns are given injections on their first day of life and antibiotic ointments smeared into their eyes? Is it possible any side effects would be diagnosed as congenital? (Interesting to note this page/definition was just updated. How would you know? Is this an avenue to push the genetic engineering agenda? To fix a problem that didn’t actually exist in the first place but rather caused in order to create a new pathway to sell their wares?
Follow the money.
Today’s feature photo is a copy of the cover of Life Magazine published April 30, 1965
Thank you, very well written and informative article. Humanity is truly at a crossroads.